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> And would cats hang around humans if living in their natural habitat and not receiving food from humans?

Domestic cats' natural habitat is with humans. They were bred by humans for domestic characteristics.

Domestic cats natural habitat is not a 40sqm flat without the possibility to go outdoors. Also, domestic cats were not bred by humans for domestic characteristics but to keep places clean of animals such as mice. Anyways, that's beside the point: cats reality is complete different to ours and trying to describe cats behaviour using human characteristics is a poor way to describe their behaviour. Even as mammals, they still have very different senses and perspective to everything. We have very limited understanding about their "feelings".

> Domestic cats natural habitat is not a 40sqm flat without the possibility to go outdoors.

Agreed, and neither is that a natural habitat for humans,in particular the not going outside part.

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